TJ, do you have some further documentation of all of this?
All of what we're seeing is very plausible, and there is definitely an undercurrent of deviance as I mentioned with their celebration of Roman Polanski, who has evaded arrest for so long, being a big indicator.
But you would think that if all of this was
so all-encompassing, more would leak out, especially in cases like you describe rather than just backdoor orgy deviance. Conspiracies and coverups get less effective the more widespread they are. Maybe conspiracy is the wrong word since it just seems like a fraternity of sort, which have always had rituals, and this is just an extremely deviant one, but you get the point.
Quote: (01-26-2016 01:24 AM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
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I was just trying to point out that I can't see paganism as an effective counterweight to militant Islam. Paganism is disorganized, lacks any organized power structure, and has no militant tradition behind it, as does Christianity.
Paganism may be fine for symbolism and beer-hall chats, but militant Islam will run right over it.
To fight force, you need greater force.
Latin Christianity does have a very extensive militant tradition, but without the militant people to fill its ranks, nothing will happen.
Just like ISIS recruits people from around the world, maybe the papacy should stop pussy-footing around and organize militant groups to fight ISIS.
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I think you should check out some of the Golden One's videos on paganism vs Christianity, he makes some interesting points.
The best example I can think of is Egyptian paganism, which was extremely nationalistic and even hubristic. It successfully organized and where necessary, militarized the populace and the pharaohs certainly defended their civilization from invasion (like against the Sea Peoples) for thousands of years, with some failures thrown in between.
Greco-Roman paganism also "worked" to some extent too but it's debatable whether it was the paganism itself or simply the fact that the Greeks and Romans were extremely nationalistic themselves.
At any rate, Christianity, especially the protestant branches, unfortunately, seems to have totally surrendered its military tradition, which is to some extent a consequence of some of its core underpinnings.
Will it get that back? Debatable. Not looking good. So I understand why we're seeing in some ways some "grassroots" spiritual answers in people like the Golden One and so on.